Makeover night

Unleash 6 kids and makeup and this is the result...They all got in on the action, even Tony Jr. It was good fun and they all enjoyed it...until Tony realized we didn't have any fingernail polish remover. That was funny going to work with pretty nails.

August 18, 2012 Meet the Schenkels...

 

 August 18th...is now a shared anniversary. DaraLynn got married to Shawn and her family grew to 7 kids all together. She shares this anniversary with our parents. My parents have been married 45 years this year. My parents have been through a lot in their 45 years and I love them very much. It was a great day. I'm happy that DaraLynn is happy and so proud of my parents for making it 45 years. Tony and I made a video montage for them that I was very pleased with. Good memories!

Elly is 7 months old!

 7 months old and showing a ton of personality...and this little girl absolutely LOVES her daddy!!

 She likes to just stare at him and keep staring until he looks at her and she gives him really big smiles.

 She really likes to try and sit up...she puts her arms out everytime you lay her on her back and try and push her head up...it looks like she is doing crunches.  She'll have strong abs if she keeps that up!

 Yes...she is sitting up now and scootin herself around in circles when she is on her belly. 

 She chews on her thumb sometimes and loves her stuffed animals. Bambi is her favorite. She holds on to his legs and chews his nose and talks to him as she falls asleep.

 She really loves to play with daddy. She loves his attention and always watches him, while she's eating, laying down, playing. She always has an eye on him.

 Just hanging with dad...she looks so proud of herself.

 She reads the paper like a pro...especially the olympics. She watched a lot of Olympics this last couple of week, and gives me weird looks when I'm screaming for someone to win!

 She loves carrots and is getting used to this solid food business. She also loves Nilla wafers, bananas, pears, apple blueberry, sweet potatoes, and squash. She is not impressed with green beans or peas. 

 She loves to be independent and feed herself. She holds her own bottle and gets mad that I won't let her hold the spoon to feed herself solid food. 

 This is what happened when she got mad enough because she couldn't feed herself. I wasn't looking and she flipped the bowl and covered herself in rice. As you can probably tell, she did not think this was very cool. 

 When sisters get ahold of her this is what happens...if you can see she does have 2 teeth on the bottom now, that was a rough couple of days until those broke through.

 Sleepy in the bumbo...I wore her out that day and couldn't wait to go to sleep. So tired!

 She crosses her legs...

 and bites the nipple on her bottle...

 Smiles at most everyone...

 Feels her new teeth with her tongue...

 Makes funny faces...

 Is super happy and shows that by opening her mouth REALLY big...

and Loves to eat paper...she is becoming mobile...good luck to us all!!

August so far...

Well, this month so far has been full of produce...kinda coming out our ears! Our garden is growing really well and we also get to go pick produce from Bill and Iris's garden every Friday...I've been able to can a lot of vegetables and make lots of raspberry and apricot jam. It's been a good produce year. I so far have 17 bags of shredded zucchini and more growing. I just picked 9 more just the other day. Plenty of zucchini! We have lots of cucumbers to go through too. We will have plenty of pumpkins this year too. That's always fun to have...hopefully we can have some for Halloween and have them last that long. They are already turning orange and it's only August!!

The lovely jacket we found at the clothing exchange. It was meant to brighten my wardrobe (as Iris pointed out lol) so I brought it home and posed with my sunflowers. SO hilarious when Tony put it on. I love it!

Lake Lowell with Ame

It's always fun to go to the Lake on a hot day...this time we got to go with Ame and her kids and Melissa...something (can't remember her last name). It was fun to get out of the house, and this time, Tony and I actually went swimming. Thank goodness we don't have pictures of that! LOL...Elly loved the water this time again. She is quite the little fish. She stayed in the water for a long time which surprised me. She didn't complain at all when we were in the water. It was a lot of fun! This summer is going by too fast. August will be full of fun stuff too...stay tuned for all of August's activities. Probably not as much as June and July though with all the prep for school going on.

Beau and Dani's wedding

So Tony got to be a groomsman for one of his childhood friends, Beau Norris this weekend. He had to rent a tux and get all fancied up and walk down the aisle with one of the bridesmaids while I videotaped the whole thing. I was supposed to use one of her friends video camera, but at the last minute I couldn't get it to turn on...good thing I had Tony's as backup because I was able to use that one instead. It was fun to get all dressed up, but it was SOOO hot that day and we were in black and we were outside. It was crazy hot. I had fun being with Tony and all dressed fancy. Although I get all self conscious being that dressed up. Anyway, I'm glad it's over and that he got to do that for his friend.

FHE with the Whiteleys

So the kids really enjoyed going to Bill and Iris's house for Family Home Evening one night. They got to re-enact the story of Ammon. They all had a part as well as Stephanie's kids and it was so good! They enjoyed it, I loved watching it. As long as I get to just watch instead of be in it, all's well in the world with me.